Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Explaining the US-Russia Saber-Rattling
Suzi talks to professor Michael Cox about what is behind Putin’s bluster at the Ukrainian border and the hawkish, confrontational response from the US, UK, and NATO. Is the threat of war with Ukraine…
Long Reads: Oliver Gloag on Jean-Paul Sartre and the Crimes of Empire
Oliver Gloag returns to Long Reads for a conversation about Jean-Paul Sartre and the philosopher's stance against colonialism. Oliver is a professor of French and Francophone studies at the Universit…
Special: Nina Turner Is Ready to Keep Fighting
Jacobin’s Micah Uetricht sat down with Nina Turner to discuss the launch of her candidacy for Congress in Ohio’s 11th District. Turner speaks about the need to prioritize bread-and-butter issues like…
Dig: Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.
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Jacobin Show: Why Everything Is Politics Now w/ Anton Jäger
Jacobin contributor Anton Jäger explains the rise of "hyper-politics" and why everything these days is "political" but collective struggle remains elusive. Luke Savage analyzes the Democrats' recent …
Sports Show: Confronting Racism & Police Brutality w/ Etan Thomas
This week on the Jacobin Sports Show, a very special episode with former NBA player and poet/writer/activist Etan Thomas. Etan's latest book, Police Brutality & White Supremacy: The Fight Against Ame…
Michael and Us: Guy's Winnipeg
The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was assigned to make a documentary about his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He made MY WINNIPEG (2007), a hilarious, surreal dreamscape that combines autobiog…
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Tension on the Russia-Ukraine Border
Bohdan Krawchenko, author of works on Ukrainian politics and history, talks to Suzi from the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan about the potential disaster on the Russian-Ukrainian border—and …
Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman
Epidemiologist Justin Feldman makes a comprehensive and devastating critique of Biden's pandemic response.
Read Justin's essay: jmfeldman.medium.com/?p=88452c696f2
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Jacobin Show: Why the Left Can't Win Without West Virginia w/ Ted Boettner
Researcher Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute outlines West Virginia’s political shift from blue to red through the history of coal mining and discusses why the Left can’t win without ru…
A World to Win: Speculative Communities w/ Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Grace talks to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, associate professor of sociology at UCL, about his book Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. They talk about the forma…
Long Reads: Cédric Durand on the Twilight of Neoliberalism
Cédric Durand joins Long Reads for a conversation about global capitalism and the pandemic. Cédric is a French economist who teaches at the University of Geneva, and the author of Fictitious Capital:…
Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant
Historian Gabriel Winant discusses The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. It's a fascinating study of the emergence of the service sector and a new wor…
Why Are Democrats Such Losers? w/ Amber Frost & Danny Bessner
Chapo Trap House’s Amber A’Lee Frost and Jacobin contributor Danny Bessner investigate whether the Democrats are losing on purpose. Ross Barkan discusses New York mayor Eric Adams’s unlikely coalitio…
Michael and Us: 300th Episode Spectacular
To mark a very special milestone, we decided to reach back to early in the podcast's history and revisit MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA (2004). Mimicking Moore's own filmmaking style, this amateurish do…
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Taking Back the Streets
Dig: Interregnum w/ Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, Wendy Brown
Primer: Thinking Outside the Big Box
This week, we speak with Alex Han, executive editor of Organizing Upgrade about a recent conversation he moderated between an Amazon activist named Howard and Wade Rathke, chief organizer of ACORN in…
Michael and Us: Democratic Losership Council
In 1985, a group of plucky renegades banded together to take on the political culture in the Democratic Party—demolishing Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" to create a coalition that could win elec…
Behind the News: Two Interviews on Chile
Doug speaks with Antonia Mardones Marshall on the recent presidential election and its winner, Gabriel Boric. Plus: Antonia Atria, in an interview from October 2020, on that country's constitutional …